> From: Peter Constable [mailto:petercon@...]


> They
> have one or more cmaps, and on any Mac produced for many years those
> cmaps are capable of supporting tens of thousands of characters.

(65536,

> to be exact.) Same as Windows.

A minor correction: for many years, cmaps used on the Mac and on Windows
have been able to support 65536 distinct characters. For a few years
now, cmaps on Mac and on Windows have been able to support over a
million distinct characters; fonts are still limited to 65536 glyphs,
however.



Peter Constable